Creatures of Silence – Independent, NY

Three hours long, Creatures of silence (2022) involves two performers making Tai Chi-like movements in the vicinity of the artist’s canvases and painted screens, while dressed as strange, alien-looking beings who might have just stepped out of her imaginary, two-dimensional world and into our own.

As the work’s title suggests, these creatures make no verbal commentary on their slow, fluid gestures. Nevertheless, it’s possible to grasp their meaning: like planet Earth, like the whole universe, they are always in motion, always changing, always becoming. Perhaps they’re beckoning us to join them, to lose—and find—ourselves in the great flow of life.’

Duration: 3 Hours

Extract from text by Frieze and ArtReview writer and curator Tom Morton written for Cecilia Fiona’s solo presentation at Independent Art Fair, NY, US.